Back to School Prep Takes More Than a Shopping Trip
By Amanda Grossman-Scott Your child may be well-supplied for the school year, and good for you! Perhaps after a few discussions with your child and with his or her school, your child will be prepared to get a good education this year as well. Last year my family made...
12 Important Skills Your Child Will Learn from Body Safety Education
By Jayneen Sanders As a teacher, a mother and an advocate for Body Safety Education both at home and at school, I am very proud and very loud about the work I do. As we know from recent media reports, many children have been and are silent victims of sexual abuse. In...
Teaching Consent. Starting Early and Simply.
By Tina Mattsson I have younger kids. My daughter is ten, and my son is seven. I hear a lot in the media about teaching consent and teaching our young men that no means no. And I always just assumed that was a lesson for my children in a few years. But in the past few...
7 Questions to Help You Get Closer With Your Teenager
By Megan Steyskal-Rondeau We can all remember some of the things we wondered about as teenagers: How do I know if I’m ready for sex? Is there a God? What’s up with morning wood? These are the fun and influential conversations we should be having with our teenager and...
Consent: Not Actually That Complicated (Clean Edition!)
Originally posted on March 2, 2015 By Rockstar Dinosaur Pirate Princess Reprinted and edited with permission. Illustration origination here. A short one today as my life is currently very complicated and conspiring against my preference to spend all of my days working...
6 Tips for Single Parents to Raise Confident Kids
By Elle C. Mayberry Despite all the scary statistics about children of divorced parents, psychologist E. Mavis Hetherington estimates 75 percent of them “do well after living through divorce.” That’s an inspiring statistic. And though it’s not...
4 Easy Steps To Develop Unhealthy Sexuality
By Shawn Tucker Messed up kids can be easier to deal with; here’s how to mess them up! So people talk a lot on this site about teaching children so that they can be successful in all aspects of their lives. But let’s face it—successful children can be a pain....
5 Basic Tips for Talking to Your Child About Sex
By Amanda Grossman-Scott Update: May 26, 2015– With the accusations against and acknowledgment of wrong doing by a member of the reality-TV-famed Duggar Family I can’t help but think that this is another result of many parents’ fear of or refusal to...
The Easiest Way to Stop Human Trafficking? Stop Watching P*rn
By Megan Steyskal-Rondeau The six degrees between viewing pornography and creating victims to feed into the world of human trafficking is startling to say the least. How can a harmless internet search lead to an extreme violation such as sex slaves? Yes, sex slaves;...
Having the Sex Talks– When Kids Don’t Want to Listen
By Julia Bernards The last time I mentioned the word “sex” around my kids, they all cringed. As I continued, ear-plugging ensued, and finally, “can you just not use that word? It is so. . . ugh.” Clearly, my kids aren’t chomping at the bit for a chance to discuss...
